Switzerland real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend
- Average price: $20,766 / m²
- Gross rental yield: 2.91%
- 12-month price change (USD): 1.7%
- Transaction cost: 6.1%
- Price basis: local-market average
Residential property in Switzerland averages $20,766 per square metre. In dollar terms the market has barely moved over the last twelve months (+1.7%). No market in the set of 70 is more expensive.
What a buyer pays in Switzerland
The $20,766 figure is a local-market average across all residential property types: it describes the capital's market, not the country as a whole — most of the country trades well below it. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 6.1% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $126,673 on top of the $2,076,600 purchase price. That is below the 9.5% median across the set, which shortens the time it takes for a purchase to break even.
What it earns
Long-term letting returns about 2.9% gross on the purchase price — the lowest gross yield of the 69 markets in the set. Measured against local earnings, the price-to-income ratio is 11.4 — that is how many years of an average local income one average home costs, and it says more about who can buy here than any price figure does.
How this figure is built
The price figure for Switzerland comes from the source we judge most reliable for this market. It was last refreshed on 2026-07-23. We rate our confidence in this market’s data medium: the series is usable, but thinner or less current than our best-covered markets. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.
Sources: GPG sqm · globalpropertyguide.com · numbeo.com. Snapshot: 2026-07-23.